Wherever you are

Today is (try to) get ahead day!

I leave for vacation on Saturday, and realized about a week ago that I've got a number of posts that should be going up while I'm out of town!

So I've been working like a madwoman all morning!

What do I have to show for it? 

Three design team posts and this fabulous gem of a card!

Yep, this one was just for fun!

You see, I got this awesome background stamp at michaels, 

It's a hero arts stamp, and I just had to play along with the Rainbow

Challenge at A Blog Named Hero!

Sooooooo I created this beauty!

And, it will be off in the mail this afternoon.

Headed to sunny California to cheer my cousin who is

Indeed on the adventure of a lifetime! 

Here's another quick lookie

Don't you just adore those big gems from lawn fawn?!?

Me tooooo!

Linking up with

Unity stamps: friends with flair

Blog named hero: Roy g. Biv

Pile it on: thinking of you

Challenges for everybody: anything goes

Love to create: anything goes

Tuesday morning sketch: #238

Put a feather on it

 Tuesdays are my late day at work

(I go in 2 hours later than normal!)

However I tend to wake up about the same time,

Sooooo I took a little bit of time and made this little ATC! 

I heat embossed the feathers, then inked over them with

Peacock Feathers, Raspberry, and Honey Distress inks!

(If you don't know this, the embossing acts as a resist)

Then a little bit of Vintage Photo around the feathers, 

and the sentiment stamp at the top.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I love ATC's for a quick creative release!

I hope you are getting crafty today!

It's my Friday at work, so Yeah for the weekend!

 

Linking up with:

Wicked Wednesday: Put a Feather on it

Simon Says Monday: Got Ink

The Corrosive Challenge: Fur and Feathers

Pile it on: Use a Tool (my heat gun to emboss the feathers!)  

Shopping Our Stash: Use something already out on your desk (the feather stamp and the ink!)

It's my party

Happy Thursday all my bloggy friends!

I had a snippet of time to craft today, and I went at it!

My girlfriend Sasha was admiring a bookmark I was using at work last night, and

she showed me her bookmark.... it was an old napkin!

That simply is not acceptable, so I let her rifle through my digi's and she pointed out this one

from Saturated Canary.

This of course immediately brings to mind the song "It's my Party" by Leslie Gore.

I colored her up using my copics, prismacolor markers, and a bic fine tip sharpie!

I die cut her out, and also the little sign is a die cut as is the heart!

The graphic black and white background was some tissue paper that DH was gonna throw away... I saved it from a life of misery in a landfill!!! 

Here is the close up of the digi!

I'm still struggling with coloring hair....

I hope you like what you've seen today!

Entering this into:

Saturated Canary: Song Inspiration

The Pink Elephant: Celebrate

Robyn's Fetish Challenge: Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge: Out with the old (I'm saying the tissue paper saved from the landfill counts??)

Flutter By Wednesdays: Anything Goes (must have a butterfly or fairy)

Desert Islands Crafts: challenge 45 (Party, something new, glitter, black white + 1 other color, anything but a card)

Happy birthday April!

Last night while perusing some of my favorite blogs I came across a new (to me) digi stamp

company called The Ocotpode Factory, you can find

these fabulous stamps here.

I was so inspired that I snatched up a couple and got to playing!

I am entering this fun birthday card into their challenge

which is "Words" you can find that challenge here

I am also super excited about the Hard Core Crop that's being sponsored by co'ordinations 

you can find all the Crop challenges here.

This card is being entered in the Recipe challenge being hosted by Andrea

at I'm livin on scraps

her recipe is akin to chocolate chips cookies,

(from her posting)

BROWN SUGAR - Page must contain some type of Core'dinations Kraft or Kraft Core (Tim Holtz collection) cardstock, OR you may use any color of Brown Core'dinations cardstock that you may have on hand!   (I used the kraft core)SUGAR - Page must contain some type of Glitter, Embossing powder or Bling.  (I embossed the sentiment, and I then sprayed it with sparkly mist!)

CHOCOLATE CHIPS - Page must contain Polka Dot embossing, (either Tillie or Jillian Spotted Core or Core cardstock that is embossed with a dotted folder).  (I embossed a scrap piece of core paper and then I distressed it!)

CHOPPED WALNUTS - Page must contain some "distressing technique".  (well it didn't show up very well, but I distressed the edges of the kraft paper, and I also added distressing to the raised embossing on the heart and the polk a dots!)

Here is my close up of this fabulous digi! 

I wanna send a shout out to my good friend April, it's her birthday!

And this fun creation is for her! 

Also entering this card into the challenges at:

Pause Dream Enjoy: Forgotten Stash (for my kraft paper! how could I forget that???)

Pile it on: Anything but a Christmas Card

Shopping Our Stash: Odds and Ends (literally everything on the card is odds and ends.. well except the image)

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes

and of course:

The Octopode Factory: Words

Cow's it Going??

Lucky me, I had some time to create today!

I LOVE playing along with challenges

And I love to try to fit as many challenges into one project as possible

I KNOW you probably already know that if you follow my blog at all.....

Soooo today I made this cute card!

I have wanted to try paper piecing for a while now, and this is sort of using that technique

if you look close at the boy cow's overalls you can see that is actually a piece

of old jeans I have in my craft room that I use for scraps!

There, that's a better view...

and see the cute sentiment??  Cow's it going??  like I told hubby, thats Punny...

Oh goodness, I must of had too much caffiene today!

First this cute cow pair is a stamp from la la land crafts I colored them up

using my copic and prismacolor markers

I added stitching to the denim paper behind the cute pair and backed with the

fun polk a dot paper!

Then I added the butterfly which is a stamp from Denami designs

and the buttons seemed to round out the bottom, I then slapped on a quickie flower and

voila!!!!  The background paper is kraft resist from my boyfriend Tim Holtz

so you ask how many challenges can I fit onto one page???

Entering into:

Pile it on: fabric or felt

Bearly mine challenges: add a sentiment

Flutterby Wednesdays: anything goes

Shopping our Stash: fur or feathers

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: anything goes

Paper issues: fallin for flair

allsorts challenge: inspired by a song  (old mcdonald had a farm)

Designed to Color: Day 4 rustic Country

Corrosive Challenges: Animal Companions

also posting to La la crafts: customer gallery

Sooooo if you're counting, that's 10, and most likely a record for me!!!  Hope you enjoyed!